Poetry
Жеңиш
Not translated into English
Temirkul Umetaliev · 1946
Synopsis
War poems, written by a man who was fighting in it, and gathered after his return. No source details its contents.
Context
Its author went to the front and returned only in 1946; he had taken part in the liberation of the Tver region, the Caucasus, southern Ukraine, then Romania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Hungary and Austria. The volume, of one hundred and eighty-seven pages, appeared in the year of his return from the Kyrgyz state publishing house, between a collection of 1935 and those he published until 1953. He had earlier written narrative poems and tales in verse, from 1938 to 1940.
Who it is for
In Kyrgyz, never translated. It is worth knowing that most of the country's writers were kept in the rear for propaganda work, and that this one enlisted of his own accord.
Prizes and reception
No distinction is attested: on the contrary, the collection was attacked by the party press in September 1947, and it is this campaign that has been remembered.